RE: What is your opinion on Flat Earth theory?
July 16, 2017 at 9:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2017 at 9:21 pm by johan.)
The OP seems to have been drive-by. C'est la vie I suppose.
I have to say that the flat earth movement is probably the theory/movement/conspiracy/whatever that shakes my confidence in mankind the most. Other things I can understand even though I don't agree with them. Theism? I don't buy into it, but I get it. I understand why people are inclined to want to believe in it. Plus in the case of the theists at least, its a question that cannot be answered. We can't prove the god exists nor can we prove he doesn't. So I get theism. I don't agree with it but I get it.
With the other pure conspiracy types I start to struggle to understand. But even with most of them I at least kind of get it. With the anti-vax idiots, the chemtrails kooks and the 9/11 assholes there is at least reasonably clear sense of protagonist/antagonist going on. There's an evil power with a motive that is at least somewhat plausible driving the core of the theory.
But the flat earth nuts don't need any such trivial details to drive their insanity. They believe the earth is flat, they believe everyone in power knows this to be true and they believe everyone in power wants to keep this truth from us for... no particular reason of any consequence. And that's good enough for them.
That's just a special kind of stupid. It would be of absolutely no benefit to anyone to hide the fact that the earth was flat if that was so and yet these window lickers just don't care. They're sure they know the truth and they're sure the government is keeping the truth from us for... no reason.
And there's tons of these people and most of them are breeding. I've said it before but I don't think its ever been so true as when I say it now. We're fucked. Put a brick in your toilet, save the whales, protect the ozone, whatever you want. None of it will matter because we're fucked.
1000 years from now this planet will be populated by diverse species of wild lifeforms roaming vast forests and tundra set on top of layers of soil filled with concrete plastic and garbage. And the flat earth crowd, more than any other are a sure sign this apocalypse is looming and unavoidable.
I have to say that the flat earth movement is probably the theory/movement/conspiracy/whatever that shakes my confidence in mankind the most. Other things I can understand even though I don't agree with them. Theism? I don't buy into it, but I get it. I understand why people are inclined to want to believe in it. Plus in the case of the theists at least, its a question that cannot be answered. We can't prove the god exists nor can we prove he doesn't. So I get theism. I don't agree with it but I get it.
With the other pure conspiracy types I start to struggle to understand. But even with most of them I at least kind of get it. With the anti-vax idiots, the chemtrails kooks and the 9/11 assholes there is at least reasonably clear sense of protagonist/antagonist going on. There's an evil power with a motive that is at least somewhat plausible driving the core of the theory.
But the flat earth nuts don't need any such trivial details to drive their insanity. They believe the earth is flat, they believe everyone in power knows this to be true and they believe everyone in power wants to keep this truth from us for... no particular reason of any consequence. And that's good enough for them.
That's just a special kind of stupid. It would be of absolutely no benefit to anyone to hide the fact that the earth was flat if that was so and yet these window lickers just don't care. They're sure they know the truth and they're sure the government is keeping the truth from us for... no reason.
And there's tons of these people and most of them are breeding. I've said it before but I don't think its ever been so true as when I say it now. We're fucked. Put a brick in your toilet, save the whales, protect the ozone, whatever you want. None of it will matter because we're fucked.
1000 years from now this planet will be populated by diverse species of wild lifeforms roaming vast forests and tundra set on top of layers of soil filled with concrete plastic and garbage. And the flat earth crowd, more than any other are a sure sign this apocalypse is looming and unavoidable.
